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Service Provider Fuels Its Future With Sun Grid Compute Utility

whitepaper Virtual Compute Corporation uses the Sun Grid Compute Utility to handle work from its energy industry customers that exceeds the capacity of its own IT infrastructure. The Sun Grid gives Virtual Compute Corporation the ability to quickly and...

Tags: infrastructure management

[06 May 2008]

World-Renowned Genome Research Facility Relies on Sun to Provide Cost-Efficient High-Performance Compute Grid

whitepaper To achieve higher performance at lower cost, TIGR migrated and consolidated processing for a core genetic sequencing application from a HP AlphaServer Tru64 platform to a high-performance computing grid infrastructure using Sun Fire x64 servers...

Tags: application servers

[05 May 2008]

Computational Power of Sun Compute Grid Helps Researchers Uncover New Ways to Treat Diseases

whitepaper A Sun Grid Rack System for High Performance Computing, comprised of 400 Sun Fire X2100 servers, was integrated by the Sun Customer Ready Systems program. One of the largest academic medical centers in the United States and a leader in clinical...

Tags: data center

[03 May 2008]

The Armada Framework for Parallel I/O on Computational Grids

whitepaper One important challenge facing grid computing is efficient parallel I/O for data-intensive grid applications. Grid applications use high-speed networks to logically assemble collections of resources such as scientific instruments, supercomputers...

Tags: high performance computing, distributed, grid, heterogeneous

[10 Apr 2008]

Perspectives on Grid Computing

whitepaper Today it is virtually impossible to discuss high performance or scientific computing of any sort without reference to grid technologies. Grid computing has emerged as a dominant, pervasive metaphor in the past decade.

Tags: high performance computing, grid, art, decade

[10 Apr 2008]

Optimizing SAGE on the Intel Itanium 2 Processor based Platform

whitepaper SAGE (SAIC Adaptive Grid Eulerian) is a well-known hydrodynamics application in the US Department of Energy's national laboratory community, and the application has been ported to several platforms over the years.

Tags: high performance computing, platforms, community, sage

[10 Apr 2008]

Transparent Grid Computing: A Knowledge-Based Approach

whitepaper Grid computing provides key infrastructure for distributed problem solving in dynamic virtual organizations. This paper describes the initial work in capturing knowledge and heuristics about how to select application components and computing...

Tags: high performance computing, knowledge, expertise, grid

[10 Apr 2008]

SABUL: A Transport Protocol for Grid Computing

whitepaper SABUL is designed for reliability, high performance, fairness and stability. This paper describes SABUL, an application-level data transfer protocol for data-intensive applications over high bandwidth-delay product networks.

Tags: web protocols, efficiency, transfer, fairness

[10 Apr 2008]

Taobao.com Turns to Grid Computing to Improve System Performance and Reliability

whitepaper Taobao.com implemented a reliable, scalable, and high performing information technology architecture using a range of Oracle grid computing products and satisfied scalability requirements with four-node server cluster, with the option of expanding...

Tags: knowledge and data management

[24 Mar 2008]

Building Scalable, High Performance Cluster and Grid Networks: The Role of Ethernet

whitepaper A Grid computer is a hardware and software system that integrates a collection of distributed system components (e.g.computer systems, storage, etc.making them appear to the user as a single, large "virtualized" computing system.

Tags: ethernet

[07 Feb 2008]

City University London Builds High-Performance, Low-Cost, Scalable Infrastructure With One-Stop Support

whitepaper The University tested migration of CitySpace to Oracle Database with Real Application Clusters-based grid computing environment, finding it capable of scaling for a 100% increase in traffic during peak exam periods without loss of performance.

Tags: application servers

[18 Dec 2007]

Crest Animation Studios Drives Rendering to New Heights With the Intel Xeon Processor

whitepaper The company developed customized script routines, Open Source grid engines and stripped-down Linux kernels to manage workflow and rendering in the HPC cluster. To handle the increasing demands, Crest developed a High-Performance Computing (HPC...

Tags: processors, demands, rendering, high performance computing

[30 Oct 2007]

Supercomputer helps cut drug research time

Case Study Ashton said the synchrotron produces 80Mb of data per second when running at its peak, meaning grid computing is sometimes required to cope with the data. Scientists at the facility are using an IBM supercomputer - developed and maintained by high...

Tags: research, supercomputer

[18 Sep 2007]

A Practical Application for Grid Computing

whitepaper Grids today appear mostly in High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, where hundreds of inexpensive compute nodes link together to solve parallel processing problems that previously could only have been addressed by using supercomputers.

Tags: high performance computing, processing, high performance computing, addressed

[11 Sep 2007]

Scaling SOA in Financial Services With Grid Computing for .NET

whitepaper New High-Performance Computing (HPC) offerings from Microsoft and its partners are ideally suited for scaling out compute-intensive components of an SOA. Enterprise architects in financial services are looking to Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA...

Tags: high performance computing, soa, service oriented architectures, financial services

[04 Jul 2007]

The GrADS Project: Software Support for High-Level Grid Application Development

whitepaper The goal of the Grid Application Development Software (GrADS) Project is to simplify distributed heterogeneous computing in the same way that the World Wide Web simplified information sharing over the Internet.

Tags: high performance computing, grid, world wide, construction

[15 Jun 2007]

Getting to Grid Computing

whitepaper International Data Corporation (IDC) projects that the aggregate grid computing market is expected to exceed $12 billion in revenue by 2007 across High-Performance Computing (HPC) technical markets and commercially viable enterprises.

Tags: high performance computing, grid, commercial, enterprises

[05 Jun 2007]

Optimizing Linux Environments for Performance and Scalability

whitepaper In addition to the cost advantages that this flexibility can afford, Linux also provides a solid and scalable infrastructure designed to support movements to grid computing and e-business on demand. Linux is a reliable, security-rich and scalable...

Tags: scalability, source, range, scalable

[18 May 2007]

Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster: Reference Configurations With Sun Fire X2200 M2 and X2100 M2 Servers

whitepaper These configurations focus on delivering computing power with high space density, in a cluster or grid architecture. The Sun Customer Ready HPC Cluster with Sun Fire X2100 M2 and X2200 M2 servers is optimized for High-Performance Computing (HPC...

Tags: application servers, cluster, high performance computing, hpc

[11 May 2007]

Cost and energy benefits driving virtualisation

News Combining multiple grid computing farms and adding virtualisation is also on the agenda. Graham Yellowley, director of technology services at investment bank Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, added: "We are looking to leverage virtualisation...

Tags: virtualisation, cio jury

[04 May 2007]

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